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DHAKA, Feb. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP flew this morning (10 February 2016) to Kathmandu to show his respect to Late Sushil Koirala, former Prime Minister of Nepal and serving President of Nepali Congress. Earlier, upon learning the sad demise of Late Sushil Koirala on 9 February 2016, a condolence […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 8 (NsNewsWire) — The 3-day 92nd JalsaSalana(AnnualConvention)ofAhmadiyyaMuslimJama’at, Bangladesh has ended at its National Headquarters. The main and the blessed event was the concluding address delivered by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Khalifa and Supreme Head of world Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at. Thousands of spectators watched this programme on Sunday. In his concluding address Hadhrat […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, will lead a team of Commonwealth election observers to Uganda for the country’s general elections, scheduled for 18 February 2016. Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced the composition of the Commonwealth Observer Group on Friday 5 February, having received an invitation from the Government of […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 7 (NsNewsWire) — The Unnayan Onneshan (UO), an independent multidisciplinary think tank, in its January issue of Bangladesh Economic Update 2016 reveals that the low implementation status of public investment in physical and social infrastructure in the backdrop of continued sluggish private investment may hinder achievement of the targeted rate of growth in […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh will launch a two-year-long national awareness campaign from Feb. 11 to save tigers, officials said on Wednesday, reports Xinhua. They said Bengal Tiger Conservation Activity (Bagh), a joint project of the Bangladesh government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will launch the campaign. Bengal Tiger Conservation […]
Read MoreDHAKA, Feb. 4 (NsNewsWire) — Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Bangladesh Devrim Ozturk paid a courtesy call on the Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, MP this morning at the Foreign Ministry. During the meeting they discussed on various issues of bilateral relations as well as different regional and international issues of mutual […]
Read MoreIn 2013, Bengali Muslim woman Sanjida traveled to the small town of Pirojpur to continue her studies when she met Puja, the youngest daughter of the man from whom she was renting a room, reports BBC. “She was wearing an olive green blouse and petticoat. The back of the blouse had two strings that were […]
Read Moreby Peerzada Arshad Hamid NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 (NsNewswire) — India’s Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to review its previous judgment that upheld a law criminalizing homosexuality, reports Xinhua. The apex court referred the curative plea seeking re-examination of its earlier verdict on criminalizing homosexuality to its five-judge constitution bench. The colonial-era law — Section 377 […]
Read MoreDES MOINES, the United States, Feb. 3 (NsNewsWire) — Hillary Clinton won Bernie Sanders with a razor-thin lead in the Iowa caucuses, according to results announced by Iowa Democratic Party Tuesday. In accordance with the official tally released early Tuesday with 100 percent of the 1,681 precincts being counted, Clinton garnered 49.8 percent while Sanders […]
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